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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-27T12:24:47.000Z",
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  "textContent": "It used to be said that a pack of cigarettes shortened your life by 127 minutes after age 20.  Now a study performed by University College London says that a pack of cigarettes can shorten your life by 400 minutes.\n\nhttps://www.ajc.com/pulse/how-smoking-cigarettes-can-shorten-your-life/ABK67OHSAVHGPBTNCU3ET2QHFY/\n\nI don't know the exact date Walt Disney started smoking, but I know he was a chain smoker who smoked three packs a day.  Let's say that he started smoking at age 19.  He died on December 15, 1966, which means he was smoking for at least 46 years.  Multiply 400 minutes by 3 packs a day by 365 days in a year by 46 years, and you get 20,148,000 minutes.  That means that if Walt Disney never smoked, he could have lived 38.333 years longer.  He could have lived to 103 years old.  It makes me think of the Disney educational films where Jiminy Cricket sang \"I'm no fool, no sir-ee, I'm gonna live to be a hundred and three\".\n\nLet's day Walt Disney had actually lived to be 103 years old.  How would he do things differently?  Here are some of my thoughts:\n\nHe would have built EPCOT not as a theme park, but as the city of the future he really wanted.\n\nAs far as the theme parks go, he would not raise ticket prices to the level they have been raised.  He would also do more to make wait times shorter.  Perhaps he would build a third resort in the United States.  Texas would be a good location.\n\nHe would have been amazed by what personal computers can do and would have ordered software developed that not only empowered his animators, but the general public as well.  Disney pioneered software for designing roller coasters.  Back in 1982, you could go to EPCOT and design your own roller coaster on a computer with a touch screen.  It was called Compute-A-Coaster:\n\nRestored Video: EPCOT Center CommuniCore Compute A Coaster (May 1992) - YouTube\nThen in 1993, Disney Software released the PC game \"Coaster\", which allowed you to design and ride your own roller coaster several years before \"RollerCoaster Tycoon\" came out:\n\nLet's Play COASTER (1993) - YouTube\nPerhaps Walt Disney might have started his own line of personal computer hardware and/or gaming consoles.  Even better, he could have devised a system where you could design your roller coaster in the comfort of your own home, saved it on a disc, and then take that disc to a Disney park to ride your own roller coaster on a motion simulator platform.  That would have been amazing.\n\nDisney's secondary movie brands specifically designed for the release of PG-13 and R-rated movies (Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures and Miramax) simply would not exist while he was in charge.\n\nHad he allowed \"101 Dalmatians\" to be remade in live-action in 1996, he would have insisted that the dogs and other animals talk to each other.  Also, he would have minimized or eliminated the use of CGI, advancing the state of animatronics so that robotic puppies could actually walk and run on all four feet.  Those robotic dalmatians would look a lot better than the CGI dalmatians that did dangerous stunts like sliding through pipes.\n\nHe would have gotten along well with Bill Nye The Science Guy (for the most part).\n\nHe would have made \"The Princess Diaries\" a much better live-action movie.\n\nHe would not have allowed the following Disney movies to be produced:\n-\"The Black Hole\"\n-\"The Watcher in the Woods\"\n-\"The Hunchback of Notre Dame\"\n\nThose are my thoughts.  Now I would like to hear yours, since you know more about Disney than me.  Have a nice day and a great weekend.",
  "title": "If Walt Disney lived to be 103, what would he do differently."
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